The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-11-17

law which they had de6ed.
Capt. Geo. D. Bryan was unani.
mously nominated for mayor by the
democratic nominating convention in
Charleston, Friday.
The Methodist Church has built
more than four thousand new churches
in the sixteen Southern States since the
war. These houses of worship represent
q membership of over 100000.
= Congressman Bynum, of Indiana,
says that the ticket to sweep the West
for the Democracy in 1888 is Grover
Cleveland, of New York, and Governor
Gray, of Indiana.
The scarcity of water in western
Ohio and eastern Indiana is becoming
a serious matter. Very many mills have
had to stop, cattle are actually suffering
for drink, village wells are dry, and ty.
phoid and other fevers are appearing.
George Oglesby, of Waco, Texas,
has gone into the bloodhound business,
and has the finest kennel in the United
States. He is encouraged in his business
by the increased frequency of deeds of
violence, and thinks that if the revolver
law is repealed, his dogs will come into
great demand to hunt bad men with.
- Martinsburg, West Virginia, boasts
the two pluckiest girls on the Western
Hemisphere. They are Miss Bella Bur-
roughs and Miss Virginia Spinger. Each
of these heroines carried keg of powder
from burning store recently, and the
kegs we're so hot that it was necessary to
envelop them in wet cloths.
WI N Jefferson Davis WAS in Macon,
Ga, Mr.. Robert Hayden, of the Tele.
graph, made him present of new hat
and kept as q memento the one which the
expresident of the Confederacy discarded.
He has since been offered 500 for the
old hat, but refuses to part with it.
Rev. VIM. Dean, D. D., for fifty
years missionary to China, will winter
in Augusta, the guest of Mr.. A. Smith
Irvine. Sunday he visited the Chinese
miss on of the Baptist church, and con-
versed with the attendants in their native
tongue, to their surprise and delight.
Prof Waterhouse, of Washington
University, is of the opinion, after travel
ing all over the world, that the jute and
its sister fbres can be raised in the Unit
ed States, and that the crop will be worth
two hundred millions of dollars annually.
1t can be made as fine as silk and bleach.
ed to the whiteness Of snow, and is adapt.
ed for the manufacture of silk, satin,
seersucker, and other articles.
"A teacher told her scholars that it
was wrong to chew tobacco. A small
boy replied that he had seen fellow
chew because his teeth ached, and assert
ed that it was not wrong to chew tobacco
if his teeth ached. The teacher was at
first puzzled 10 know how to answer this
stunning argument. At last she said 10
the boy: Horace, if girl should have
the toothache, and want to chew tobacco,
what then ?" Horace scratched his head
and then said resolutely, "She ought to
have the tooth pulled"
When you go to church, lay your
quid of tobacco on the door step till the
services are over. You can get it again.
The church has just been secured and
cleaned, and put in apple.p order, for
the meeting of the presbytery, and it is
the request Of the ladies who have charge
of the house that it be not soiled again,
as it has been. Do you know who has
to clean it up? Just the incest ladies in
this community. And they say the job
is not one bit nice. Think of these
things when you are spouting ambeer over
the church floor, like tobacco geyser,
and quit, for very shame, It'll the services
are over. .-Aontgonssry, Ga, Monitor.
The Rev. J. W. Daniel says: Here
is an illustration I wish you would carry
home with you. 1t is not mine. I got
it out of a book: "The Congo and Nile,
rivers of Africa, begin up in the mour-
tains. They gather strength from the
everlasting hills. But when they reach
the plains they spread out, and become
so broad aud shallow that there is no
river left. For want of depth they die
and their death breeds an African swamp.
Instead of bringing life, they bring death,
disease, malaria. Pestilence, Rejoice
o young man in thy youth. Rejoice
0 young woman in thy strength, gather
up the energies and forces of thy life, and
consecrate them to God, that thy life may
not be failure. God forbid that any in
this congregation should say at last,
The harvest is past, the summer is ended,
aud we are not saved
The construction of The great iron
tower for the French Exhibition of 1883
has been begun in Paris. The tower is
designed to be 9S4 feet high, or nearly
twice the height of the Washington mon
umcnt. and, if constructed, will be twice
as high as any artificial structure on the
globe. The builders say that the most
difficult part of their work will be COM
pleted by the close of this year, when
they expect to have the first story, l50
feet high, constructed. Three thousand
tons of iron will be used in this section
alone. 1t is expected that the tower can
be wholly completed by October of next
year. It is to be built chiefly as an ex.
QlOlL OF euRiueeIluS ohHlj uu1 10 W De
used during the exhibition as IN observa.
tory, and if it should reach its intended
height will be one of the wonders not
only of the exhibition but of the world.
- An autograph collector says that of
The presidential autograph letters those
Of Andrew Jackson are the rarest and
,ostliest. This is because he seldom
wrote letters never when he could help
It. The fact that bis letters were often
both written and signed by proxy is
known to collectors and paper of this
sort recently sold for 50. A full genuine
letter is worth from S25 upward. Wash
ngton's autograph letters come next in
value and rarcness. Next come the let
;ers of Zachary Taylor, who wrote bad
land and bad letter. They are worth
rom SIS to S25. Lincoln's letters come
next in rareness and range from So to
$40. Grants are high priced, not because
are, but because they are Grants. Ar
.hur's letters are scarce. They haven't
lad time to find their way into the hands
If strangers. Twenty years from now
hey will be commoner.